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Details relating to expenditure incurred are given below :—
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Cost of Milk at Full Price 911 9 0 (828 6 2)
Cost of Milk at Half Price 14 3 6 (15 4 11)
Cost of Dried Milk at Full Price 179 0 10 (154 3 9)
Cost of Dried Milk at Half Price 11 0 0 (18 8)
Cost of Dinners 6 18 3 (27 18 9)
£1,122 12 1 (£1,026 12 3)
Supply of Dried Milk, Etc., at Consultation Centres.
£ s. d.
Purchases of Dried Milks, Drugs, etc. 1,670 18 7
Sales 1,285 19 1
Grants from Borough Council 404 2 8
The reception into the Borough of a large number of migratory necessitous families, referred
to in previous Reports, would appear to persist.
Four hundred and fifteen families hitherto unknown to the Department applied for grants
during the year.
INVALID CHILDREN'S AID ASSOCIATION.
A grant of £10 in aid of the funds of the local branch of the Invalid Children's Aid Association
was made.
CONVALESCENCE.
Seventeen cases of nursing mothers with babi es were referred for convalescence at a cost to the
Council, after deducting contributions by patients, and from other sources, of £22 17s. Od.
In 44 instances the Council made grants towards the cost of children convalesced by the Invalid
Children's Aid Association. The amount paid by the Council to the Association during the year
for the convalescing of children was £141 19s. 2d.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
During the year five maternal deaths were enquired into by Dr. E. Dorothy Fenwick,
the Council's medical investigator, and reports thereon forwarded to the Ministry of Health.
CHILD LIFE PROTECTION.
In pursuance of the Transfer of Powers (London) Order, 1933, the duties of the London County
Council in connection with child life protection were transferred to the Borough Council as from the
1st April, 1933. These duties are now laid down in Part XIII of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1936, and relate to:—
(a) Reception of notices given by persons who undertake for reward the nursing and
maintenance in a dwelling of children;
(b) Inspection of premises by Child Protection Visitors, or other persons appointed
by the Council for that purpose;
(c) Fixing the number of children to be kept in a dwelling in which any child is
received for reward.
(d) Application to a Court of Justice for an Order direeting the removal of a child
to a place of safety.
In July, 1935, Miss M. A. MacLean was appointed to the dual office of Health Visitor and Child
Protection Visitor, her duties in the latter respect occupying three-fourths of her time.
In addition, other Health Visitors act as occasion requires and the Medical Officer of Health
and two of the Sanitary Inspectors are also authorised to exercise the powers and duties of Child
Protection Visitors for special purposes.
During the year 1936, 1,217 visits and inspections were made, 31 new registrations of fostermothers
were recorded, 47 new children were received and 32 children were removed—6 to hospital
and 26 elsewhere. One death was reported.
At the close of the year, the Register contained the names of 102 persons who were receiving
children for reward. These persons had charge of 139 children.